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Gather with hundreds of business owners, corporate executives and civic leaders for a day of leadership development.

The SOAR Community Summit Theme for 2017 is:

Inspiration. Elevation. Application.

Our speakers have shared their insights on national and international stages and will be guiding you through exercises while sharing their expert knowledge on a variety of topics:

Provoke-Ability: How to Reveal The Talent Hidden Within Yourself and Your Team

Business Application of the Law of Attraction

Mastering the 10 Most Pivotal Leadership Mindsets

Drawing Leadership from the Heart

Ways to Attract Funders and Investors to Support Your Growing Business

How to Grow and Sustain a Purpose Driven Business, Not-for-Profit or Initiative

Leadership Lessons from Running Like a Girl

Mapping Matters: Clarity. Focus. S.O.A.R.

Misti Burmeister is an award-winning author, speaker, and entrepreneur. Her passion, humor, and direct approach has inspired audiences from coast to coast – from convention halls to C-suites. She makes you laugh, while connecting to the heart of what creates high-performing team members. She helps you see beyond frustrating employees, and teaches you how to get your team to own their results, collaborate effectively, and deliver their best consistently.

Visit www.MistiBurmeister.com for immediate access to interviews, blogs, and additional resources to help you identify and share your greatest talents.

Myron J. Radio is a five-time author and President of The R Group, a consortium of seasoned professionals who specialize in Leadership and Organizational – Change, Transitions and Transformations.

Myron Radio is recognized as an energetic speaker, facilitator, team builder and executive coach with over 5,000 coaching sessions to his credit. His clients represent a broad range of global Fortune 500 companies and industries as well as mid-cap and startup organizations. Prior to founding The R Group, Myron was an executive with Mobil Corporation, now ExxonMobil.

His latest eBook is LEADERSHIP FIT – Finding the Right Leadership Fit for you. He has also published several articles on “how to” engage and align the workforce to achieve the organization’s Strategic Imperatives.

She is a Chapter Chair for Women’s Presidents Organization (WPO) and a Leadership Mindset columnist for Inc. Magazine, and is an instructor & strategy coach for Inc’s online entrepreneurship education program, Inc. Edu.

Robert Clancy is a gifted technology entrepreneur, inspirational speaker, author, minister and spiritual teacher from the heart of upstate New York. Through his passion for exceptional design & innovative technology, he co-founded Spiral Design Studio (SpiralDesign.com) over 27 years ago to lead an award winning creative team in the evolution of major corporate brands, marketing & web development.

In 2012 he started “Robert Clancy – Guide to the Soul” Facebook fan page (facebook.com/GuideToTheSoul) where he shares his divinely inspired thoughts, now followed by nearly a half million people worldwide. Robert is also a regular contributor on KABC Radio’s syndicated Late Night Health Radio.

For the past 15 years, Laurent Amzallag has been Washington DC’s well sought after fitness expert. He was called to participate in Oprah’s “Live Your Best Life” tour and has been featured in ELLE Magazine along with numerous television and radio programs.

As the architect behind NRGY!15, he created this high intensity workout based on 15 signature moves choreographed to energetic music. As a fitness entertainer, he is a regular correspondent on NBC, FOX, CBS and the CW Network, and has participated in events hosted by the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, which named him one of the country’s top 50 trainers. Washingtonian Magazine also named him as one of DC’s top trainers throughout the local region.

Mr. S. Tien Wong is a technology entrepreneur, CEO, and angel investor. He is Chairman of Tech 2000, Inc., a Virginia-based EdTech company which provides advanced tech training, mobile e-learning, and software development to Fortune 500 customers. Mr. Wong is also Chairman of Lore Systems, Inc. and also serves as Chairman & CEO of Opus8, Inc., a private investment and strategic advisory firm specializing in middle market buyouts and venture capital investment.

He is Founder and Host of the Big Idea CONNECTpreneur Forum, a community of over 5000 founders, CEOs, angels, VCs, CXOs and other business leaders in the Mid-Atlantic region. The community hosts quarterly 1/2-day Forums with upwards of 550 attendees, featuring VIP guests, speakers, exciting presenting companies, and the best CXO to CXO networking in the region.

Maimah Karmo is the Founder/CEO of the Tigerlily Foundation (Tigerlily) and a ten-year survivor of breast cancer. On February 28, 2006, at 4:45 p.m., Maimah was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer. She had no family history and was 32-years old. While undergoing her second round of chemotherapy, she made a promise to God that if she survived, she would create an organization to educate, empower, advocate for and support young women affected by breast cancer.

Maimah has appeared in USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, Black Enterprise, Oprah Magazine, Essence Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, Good Housekeeping, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Redbook, Women and Cancer, Cure Magazine, Traditional Home Magazine and more. She has also been featured on Fox 5, ABC 7, CBS, the Oprah Winfrey Show, OWN, Good Morning America and more.

Channapha Khamvongsa is founder and executive director of Legacies of War, an organization that seeks to address the problem of unexploded ordnance in Laos, to provide space for healing the wounds of war, and to create greater hope for a future of peace. The organization uses art, culture, education, and community organizing, especially among the Lao diaspora, to create healing and transformation out of the wreckage of war. Legacies has successfully advocated for an increase in U.S. funding for bomb clearance in Laos, from an annual average of $2M in 2008 to $30M in 2016. In September 2016, President Barack Obama acknowledged Channapha’s advocacy efforts in Laos, where he became the first U.S. President to visit the country. Channapha has written and spoken widely about the secret war in Laos and its aftermath and has appeared in the New York Times, Democracy Now!, CNN, ABC, PBS and CBS News.

Bruce Van Horn is a writer, speaker, teacher, and coach whose mission in life is to reach, teach, and empower people to live intentionally as the fullest expression of who they were created to be. What he has discovered and now help others learn about themselves, is we are not living to our fullest potential because of the story we have been narrating in our minds about ourselves, others, and the world in which we live. Most people are telling a story that does not empower them, nor does it inspire others. By restorying (yes, that’s a word-play on “restoring”) passion, purpose, and vision, Bruce helps individuals and businesses remove the layers of limiting beliefs, negative messages, and counter-productive behaviors, and replace them with a new mindset that unleashes their true power that has been seeking greater expression in the world. Through his books, podcast, speaking, and coaching, he have helped thousands of people “restory” their lives.

Originally from Romania, Alexandra came to the United States in 2012 to pursue her dream since childhood, to live and study in the big apple, New York. She studied at the Spanish American Institute in New York City and then moved to Alexandria, Virginia and now works as an integral part of Empowered Women International (EWI). As the Regional Program Director she plays a major role in the growth and development of the organization. EWI’s mission is to unlock the potential of women in the Greater DC Metro area facing economic and social challenges—including immigrants, refugees, and American-born women. Alexandra is a graduate of Babes- Bolyai University in Cluj- Napoca, Romania, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Marketing and later her Master of Arts degree in Advertising.

Julie Jakopic has been helping leaders succeed since she tutored her friends in math in 3rd grade. Today, Julie is one of the nation’s top organizational and leadership development consultants and coaches who has shared the stage with luminaries like President Obama and change agent Neale Donald Walsch. She’s committed to help build the new paradigm of business where leaders lead boldly and have lives they love.

She has worked with senior executives in government, non-profit organizations and business leaders to clarify their vision, build the relationships and design and execute strategies to achieve extraordinary results. In 2015, she ran in a five-way primary for the Virginia House of Delegates. She did well but didn’t win and now serves as the Chairwoman of Virginia’s List, an organization dedicated to electing women to statewide office.

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